Monthly Archives: August 2017

Today, Scormus and Beoulus discuss the five year anniversary of “Guild Wars 2”, and some of the changes to the game over that time. Theme Music – “Pinball Spring”, by Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com), licensed under the Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0” license. Proud member of The Gaming and Entertainment Network (TGEN)

And lo, as the Battle Bards walk through the zone of the shadow of death, they will fear no evil, but they will listen to evil’s soundtrack because that is what they do! In today’s episode, the crew looks at the darker side of MMORPG soundtracks, dwelling in the wicked, the profane, and the deliciously macabre. Also, Syp does his Cookie Monster voice.

Episode 104 show notes

Intro (feat.“In the Darkest Hour” from Vindictus, “Twilight Vale” from World of Warcraft, and “Theme” from Hellgate London)

Tonight we record the August AggroChat Game Club title… Full Throttle. This was picked by Thalen for a bunch of reasons but at least in part because we had yet to play a classic point and click adventure game. With Full Throttle being relatively recently remastered, it made it an excellent candidate since it was more or less going to run well on any system. Unfortunately one of our show members opted to try playing it on a mobile platform where the experience was less than desireable. We talk about our thoughts on Full Throttle and adventure games in general as the show goes way off the rails towards the end with many wild trips into nostalgia land.

Beoulus and Scormus have both been playing and game-mastering tabletop roleplaying games for nearly 40 years now, so today they share tips for new GMs or people just looking to get into roleplaying in general. Theme Music – “Pinball Spring”, by Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com), licensed under the Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0” license.

Beoulus and Scormus have both been playing and game-mastering tabletop roleplaying games for nearly 40 years now, so today they share tips for new GMs or people just looking to get into roleplaying in general. Theme Music – “Pinball Spring”, by Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com), licensed under the Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0” license.

This is another one of those nights when we thought we had nothing to talk about… but ended up having stuff to talk about. We start off the night talking some more about our recent experiences in Guild Wars 2. From there we get into some Robo Squid fun… and talk about how Gnomeregan is still horrible. From there Thalen and I talk about how West of Loathing has suddenly caused us to start playing Kingdom of Loathing again. Kodra talks about finally grasping why Tam loves Agricola so much. There is a brief offshoot conversation that leads us down the path of Magic the Gathering Commander and the game in general. We finally wrap things up with a talk that starts with painting miniatures and ventures forth into creativity in general.

This is another one of those nights when we thought we had nothing to talk about… but ended up having stuff to talk about. We start off the night talking some more about our recent experiences in Guild Wars 2. From there we get into some Robo Squid fun… and talk about how Gnomeregan is still horrible. From there Thalen and I talk about how West of Loathing has suddenly caused us to start playing Kingdom of Loathing again. Kodra talks about finally grasping why Tam loves Agricola so much. There is a brief offshoot conversation that leads us down the path of Magic the Gathering Commander and the game in general. We finally wrap things up with a talk that starts with painting miniatures and ventures forth into creativity in general.